Fascinating!
It makes me wish I were French.
I wonder if the women who go through this treatment have fewer instances of post-partum stress disorder than women who are left to their own devices.
I wonder if there is an equivalent system in any other country - and if it has similar success.
I like the idea of doctors encouraging their patients to not put on much weight during pregnancy. My sister recently gave birth to her fifth child. During her pregnancy, she did not want to gain weight. She still had some weight from her previous pregnancy (mainly because she breastfed her previous child until she found out she was pregnant with the next). She didn't see any reason to gain more weight. Her physician kept pestering her about it - encouraging her to eat a diet that she viewed excessive and unhealthy. These patterns of excessive consumption are typically carried on beyond the birth and nursing of a child in the US. How many overweight mothers do you know? How many of those feel helpless and lost in their role as a mother? I've known quite a few. I think that encouraging them to take on a regimen, and possibly a personal trainer, will help them to regain that part of themselves that they feel they have lost - and will make them healthier, happier parents to their children.
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